Tom Lehrer Quotes

"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

Tom Lehrer

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• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Care

• In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Religious

• If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Rules
  • Danger

• Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Baseball
  • Whole
  • Undergone

• If you're not working, you might as well be dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle

• I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. … There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • God
  • Father
  • Alone

• I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.

  

  Benny Hinn
  • Heaven
  • Gold

• It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons

• You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Good
  • Help
  • Technology

• Cisco projects that in 2020, now just five years away, there will be seven billion people on the earth and 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. Six-and-a-half devices on average per person. As a father of five young adults and teenagers, I think we are - in my household, we've exceeded the 6.5 number.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Father
  • Earth

• I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Writing
  • Strong

• We're really spoiled on 'Mad Men.' Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Men
  • Mad

• I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Life
  • Why
  • Fear

• It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Control
  • Illegal
  • Firearm

• I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Space

• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • Children
  • Business
  • Together

• I answer questions the best I can.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• I would love to have been born in the '60s.

  

  Jake Bugg

• Greg Grunberg is so beautiful and charming and funny and heartbreaking.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Beautiful
  • Funny

• "Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

  

  Tom Lehrer